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A boat-shaped wooden body covered with antelope skin. Tensioning straps made of skin run lengthwise and crosswise across the base of the bowl and are interwoven at three crossing points. The string support is a bamboo cane with two spikes at the end. A broad, cylindrical wooden bridge, wrapped in a piece of skin with a semi-circular opening. Two strings made from twisted ponytail hair. Two windings of goatskin straps for the upper string connection. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Hausa (Haussa)
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 52,8 cm
Width: 10,7 cm
Height: 12,2 cm
Height: 11,8 cm
Depth: 13 cm
Width: 52 cm
Material/Technique
Leather , Fur , Wood , Hair (animal), Nylon (?)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 38329

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Nigeria
    Bayan Dutse (?)
    who
    Hausa (Haussa)
  • Collecting
    who
    Kurt Krieger (1920-01-17 - 2007-12-24) - Collectors
    Brigitte Menzel (1930 - 1998) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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